 The long-term result of this campaign and the subsequent classification of the leopard as "vermin" was to bring them to the brink of extinction.Serious attention was not paid to the Zanzibar leopard's plight until the mid-1990s, by which some authorities were already listing it as extinct.A leopard conservation program was drafted by the CARE-funded Jozani-Chwaka Bay Conservation Project, but abandoned in 1997 when wildlife researchers failed to find evidence for the leopard.